PHONETICS: Additional Exercises

1. Mark the words that begin with a bilabial consonant:

mat gnat sat bat rat pat

2. Mark the words that begin with a velar consonant:

knot got lot cot hot pot

3. Mark the words that begin with a labiodental consonant:

fat cat that mat chat vat

4. Mark the words that begin with an alveolar consonant:

zip nip lip sip tip dip

5. Mark the words that begin with a dental consonant:

pie guy shy thigh thy high

6. Mark the words that begin with a palato-alveolar consonant:

sigh shy tie thigh thy lie

7. Mark the words that end with a fricative:

race wreath bush bring breathe bang rave rouge ray rose

rough

8. Mark the words that end with a nasal:

rain rang dumb deaf

9. Mark the words that end with a stop:

pill lip lit limb crab dog hide laugh back

10. Mark the words that begin with a lateral:

nut lull bar rob one

11. Mark the words that begin with an approximant:

we you one run

12. Mark the words that end with an affricative:

much back edge ooze

13. Mark the words in which the consonant in the middle is voiced:

tracking mother robber leisure massive stomach razor